Eyralpenus

Eyralpenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Eyralpenus Butler, 1875[1]
Type species
Spilosoma testacea Walker, 1855

Eyralpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.

Species

• Eyralpenus inconspicua (Rothschild, 1910)
• Eyralpenus kovtunovitchi Dubatolov, 2011
• Eyralpenus postflavida (Rothschild, 1933)
• Eyralpenus scioana (Oberthür, 1879 [1880])
  • Eyralpenus scioana intensa (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Eyralpenus scioana paucipunctata (Kiriakoff, 1963)
• Eyralpenus sublutea (Bartel, 1903)
• Eyralpenus testacea (Walker, 1855)
• Eyralpenus trifasciata (Holland, 1892)

References

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• Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285-301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
• Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.
• Dubatolov, V.V., & Haynes, P.G., 2008: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera. 1. New genera from the late Prof. V. S. Murzin's collection (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 39 (1/4): 356-366, 20 figs., pl. 15.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog